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Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Jonny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that a knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future.
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National Folklore Collection UCD is recognised as one of Europe’s largest archives of oral tradition and cultural history, preserving Ireland’s rich oral literature alongside its material culture, ethnology and social history.
Visitors to the Collection are invited to explore a large selection of books, manuscripts, audio recordings, videos and photographs, drawings and paintings dealing with Irish life, folk history and culture.
The National Folklore Collection is committed to documenting and preserving a record of the folklore and folklife of all communities in Ireland.
A range of finding aids will assist researchers in locating information about a particular subject, or material contributed by any of the many thousands of storytellers, collectors and correspondents over the years.
Enquiries are welcome to bealoideas@ucd.ie or on 01 716 8216.
The objective of the project is to initiate the digitization of the National Folklore Collection (NFC) so that:
(i) the public has online access to material from the Collection and
(ii) a data management system is available for NFC to which other material can be added in the future.